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Coal Mining (Shire Library)
Geoff Hayes
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Description for Coal Mining (Shire Library)
Paperback. This book tells how mines evolved from simple bell pits into extensive networks of shafts and tunnels and extending deep underground. Series: Shire Album S. Num Pages: 32 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: KNAT; KNBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 144 x 4. Weight in Grams: 96. New.
This book tells how mines evolved from simple bell pits into extensive networks of shafts and tunnels and extending deep underground. It describes the methods used to drive tunnels through the rock and the machines that were developed to cut the coal. It explains how the coal was transported from the coalface to the shaft, a task performed variously by women or children with sleds of baskets, pit ponies, rope haulage systems, conveyors and locomotives, and it describes the winding engines used to lower men and equipment into the mine and to bring them and the coal back to the ... Read more
This book tells how mines evolved from simple bell pits into extensive networks of shafts and tunnels and extending deep underground. It describes the methods used to drive tunnels through the rock and the machines that were developed to cut the coal. It explains how the coal was transported from the coalface to the shaft, a task performed variously by women or children with sleds of baskets, pit ponies, rope haulage systems, conveyors and locomotives, and it describes the winding engines used to lower men and equipment into the mine and to bring them and the coal back to the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Shire Publications Ltd
Number of pages
32
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Series
Shire Album S.
Condition
New
Number of Pages
32
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747804345
SKU
9780747804345
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Geoff Hayes
Geoffrey Hayes began his working career in the Lancashire coalfield. Retired now, he describes the environmental and social implications of extracting coal throughout the United Kingdom in this illustrated study.'
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